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Directing
Blocking 101: Reading and Writing a Stage Grid
Stage directions like upstage-left and downstage-right only make sense once you understand where they come from — here's how to read a blocking grid and use one to record your own show.
Building a Rehearsal Schedule That Actually Gets You to Opening Night
A weekly rehearsal calendar looks simple until you try to fit every scene, every actor's availability, and a tech week into it — here's a method for splitting your hours sensibly.
How to Budget Props for a Community Theatre Production
Prop costs have a way of creeping past what you planned for — a practical approach to listing, pricing, and protecting your production's prop budget from surprises.
The Page-a-Minute Rule: Estimating Your Show's Runtime
Directors have used a simple rule of thumb to estimate a script's stage time for decades — where it comes from, when it breaks down, and how to use it responsibly.
Blocking Notation That Survives a Handover
Blocking notes are useless if they cannot be read back three weeks later. The common failure is not laziness — it is that "moves left" and "crosses to the…
What the Page-a-Minute Rule Misses
A page of script runs about a minute. It is the most useful rule of thumb in theatre scheduling and it is wrong often enough to be worth understanding…